Series
Felix Castor
Mike Carey · 5 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 2006–2023
Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels follow a freelance exorcist working London's supernatural underside, taking paying jobs to banish ghosts and bind demons in a city where the dead don't always stay quiet. The opener, The Devil You Know, sends Castor into a museum haunting that spirals into a hunt by rival ghosts and demons all keen to be the one that finally kills him. Across six books the series mixes hardboiled detective plotting with occult horror.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2000s5
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
5 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:urban fantasydemonsbritish islescontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Devil You Knowdarkest · calmest
- The Ghost in Bonebrightest · most intense